Harringay West approach (Then & Now)

Comment by Paul Soper on March 10, 2023 at 12:52

This is the path from Wightman to Quernmore so surely it is the East approach? Didn't the 'then' look much better...?

Comment by Hugh on March 10, 2023 at 13:11

It’s the approach from the east to what was then called Harringay West. 

Comment by Geraldine on March 10, 2023 at 13:39

What are the bars for?

Comment by Don on March 10, 2023 at 15:07

Aren’t the bars to prevent cyclists or bikers using the path as a road? With bars, you pretty much need to dismount, so it encourages people to wheel their bike instead of riding it and keep the entrance safe for pedestrians.

Comment by Richard Woods on March 10, 2023 at 16:28

Points:

No signal box.

And not very attractive now.

Lampost gone and what remains is crooked.

Barriers look dreadful.

Bridge is lit better.

Comment by Charlie Owen on March 10, 2023 at 17:09

The bars are to keep the elephants out. They are very effective, as you never see elephants on Green Lanes any more.

Comment by anne barwick on March 10, 2023 at 18:35

They could use that space where the signal box used to be to put in a safe ramp.

Comment by Geoffrey Walker on March 10, 2023 at 21:01

Remember a Greek(?) hairdressers in one of the shops on the left during late 1960s and also Stevens & Steeds shop at the end of the buildings on the other side at the end of Quernmore Road where other shops included Gibb's sweetshop, a chemist and an off-licence.

Comment by Alan on March 11, 2023 at 3:46

Oh shame, I read this after I made my collage of Quernmore Rd shops c1965. Gibbs- was that the 'sweet shop ' I refer to as a newsagent at no. 45?

Comment by Geoffrey Walker on March 13, 2023 at 23:28

Yes, it looks like it. Looking at the parade of shops they were (from left - the Library end - to right): the off-licence, Simms chemist, Gibbs shop (no.45 - now an Istambul shop) and Stevenson & Steeds at the end.

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